# Can I retain my forum content if I change its original IP?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 26, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-retain-my-forum-content-if-i-change-its-original-ip/171445 "2020-11-26T21:29:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-retain-my-forum-content-if-i-change-its-original-ip/171445/8 "2020-11-26T22:20:21Z")

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> [@ElliSol](#):
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> The reason I want a new IP is that my forum was without protection for months until I recently set up Cloudflare.

Unless you have reason to believe that you’re community is likely to be the target of a denial of service attack (like, it’s happened several times before) , what you suggest will server only to make your community harder to manage and slower.

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